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drafts of proposed new chapters framed in the light of 

 contemporary needs and comparative law. The Aca- 

 demic des Sciences Morales et Politiques has a section 

 for Legislation, which conducts lectures and debates. 

 At Toulouse, the Academic de Legislation conducts 

 debates and publishes a Recueil. And a number of 

 prize competitions for essays are devoted especially to 

 the subject of contemporary legislation. 



The rich resources available for legal research in libraries 

 and archives are fully set forth in the chapter on Political 

 Science in this book, and need not be here repeated. 



Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence. Neither the 

 analytic jurisprudence of Austin, made dominant by 

 him for Anglo-America, nor the metaphysical philosophy 

 of law, pursued in Germany since Kant's time, obtained 

 much footing with French jurists during the iSoos. 

 Nor have the universities of France, any more than those 

 of America, included courses on jurisprudence and phil- 

 osophy of law as a formal part of their prescribed cur- 

 riculum. The philosophy of law was left to the philoso- 

 phers, Comte, Fourier, Proudhon, Fouillee. 



But the last twenty-five years have seen a remarkable 

 growth in France of a vigorous interest in both of these 

 allied branches of study, chiefly inspired and led (so 

 far as personal influence was responsible) by the eminent 

 idealist philosopher FOUILLEE, and by the great jurist 

 SALEILLES,, whose recent death is lamented in many de- 

 partments of legal science. A host of younger men now 

 cultivate this field with such originality and success 

 that, for the philosophy of law of the coming generation, 

 the French systems are vital for every American student, 

 the more so as they are the product of a democratic 

 nation whose traditions, experiences, and ideals are 

 germane to our own. 



